This is all crazy. My brother has limited power over his son, a diagnosed schizophrenic. He has way more autonomy over his life than it sounds what Britney has. They do decide where he lives (at home), but he drives himself, sometimes has a job and is making good progress toward a college degree. He had a girlfriend, went through a break-up OK. Normal stuff.
he is doing great, the advances in medication regimes is remarkable. Of course the concern is that he decides he is doing so well he doesn’t need the medication. That has happened with another young adult in an in-law family branch
They had to jump through a lot of hoops to get what they have. Their goal is that he is able to live an independent life, especially as they age when the time comes.
Some of you West Coast nerds are flipping blockchain GIFs for nickels when you could be trolling Westwood for 5150 holds on rich celebs and filing petitions in the rubber stamp courts.
Those forms are not casually filled out and they are not touched by clients. CA has moved many pleadings to specific, often mandatory, forms that track the law. So, like, if “you checked c) on question 5(b)(ii), state the dates on which the evaluation was conducted and by who and summarize the result on attachment 4.”
Falsely checking a box is basically perjury. Certainly enough for a sanction against a lawyer absent very good explanation. And you don’t just have one paralegal review your conservatorship application for Britney Spears.
Law is a lot like politics. Basically everyone in the game assumed the rules mattered for a really long time but it has been made painfully clear that the whole charade collapses amidst shamelessness.
“Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, Ingham is extremely upset at Britney’s statement in court … that she never knew she could end the conservatorship. We’re told Ingham regularly gave Britney options, including requesting that the conservatorship should end, but she never wanted to pull the plug.”
Only people that should know what legal advice was given to Britney is herself and her lawyer (or people working for him). Would be weird for others to have direct knowledge of those conversations. Seems like he’s leaking to protect himself, which is huge violation of attorney client privilege.
Possibly, but it’s not the attorney’s role to determine that the client has waived her privilege and start talking about the issue. Like the judge could probably require her or her attorney to talk more about her conversations related to ending the conservatorship, but the attorney should not be the one to decide that his client has waived her privilege.
Meh. The privilege may not have even attached in the first place since it sounds like other people may have been present for these conversations. Regardless, the attorney is probably just jumping ship and trying to save his own ass.
Several of the guys I work with at the group home are schizophrenic. Them stopping their meds is a perpetual fair. Fortunately they all seem pretty good with it for now.
Client holds the privilege. Brittany can waive it if she wants, expressly or through her acts or statements. A lawyer need not be concerned if the client wants to waive privilege.
As for him being a source, that more implicates his duty of loyalty and to not act against a client’s interests.
Lawyer brain loves, absolutely loves, contemplating functionally meaningless questions like privilege and when it’s waived and blah blah blah. How many times did we hear from @Preet_Bharara that Trump waived privilege by blabbering in the presence of WH counsel (that’s not his personal lawyer, it’s just like that west wing episode!) or Jared or whoever. ZOMG THE PRESENCE OF A THIRD PARTY WE GOT HIM DOT GIF. Then Trump just said “lol fuck you and your stupid rules” and that was the end of that.
Nothing is going to happen to any of these people and the system that’s supposed to produce accountability is impotent in the face of shamelessness.
Forms are an interesting issue. They aren’t used in federal courts. They are created by a council in CA administrative office of the courts and ultimately blessed by the ca supreme court. The idea is to streamline some things and make courts more available to the public for things like restraining orders.
